About the day » Monday August 12, 1968Calender converter

• Cornelia Margretha Zoetelief, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Therese Tjeerdje Wilhelmina Maria Jansen, Nijmegen
• Maria Johanna van de Sloot, Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• ADRIANUS JOHANNES MARIA MAAT, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jannette Hagting, Groningen († 2002)
• François de Cressac de Soleuvre († 1968)
• Linda Blommaert, Voorburg, Nederland († 2002)
• Jannie van Kranenburg († 2025)
• Mariëlle Harink († 1974)

• Beulah UREN (58)
• Barend van den Heuvel (70), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adrianus Nicolaas Bernardus de Ronde (77), Rotterdam
• Dubbeldam (64)
• Aafke Helder (91), Haren,, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Joannes Maria van Gool (66), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arthur Hammond Gurney (65), Warwickshire, England
• Cecil John POWNELL (75), Aboard Queen Elizabeth
• Aaltje Cornelia de Wilde (87), Scherpenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Betsy Paulina Bamberg (81), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1966 » Tobias Ellwood, American-English captain and politician
• 1967 » Andrey Plotnikov, Russian race walker
• 1967 » Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
• 1967 » Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
• 1968 » Thorsten Boer, German footballer and manager
• 1969 » Aga Muhlach, Filipino actor and politician
• 1969 » Stuart Williams, Nevisian cricketer
• 1970 » Aleksandar Đurić, Bosnian footballer
• 1970 » Charles Mesure, English-Australian actor and screenwriter
• 1970 » Toby Perkins, English businessman and politician

• 1955 » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1877)
• 1964 » Ian Fleming, English spy, journalist, and author (b. 1908)
• 1966 » Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 1967 » Esther Forbes, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1973 » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 1979 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
• March 2 » Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.
• April 4 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
• July 1 » Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
• August 20 » Cold War: Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
• November 22 » The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
• December 10 » Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.

The temperature on August 12, 1968 was between 11.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.